Intelligence and Counterterrorism

Technical progress and technological development have enabled us to adopt innovative approaches in the fight against terrorism. Intelligence services plays a unique role in this fight. Their main task is to collect and analyze data and information on terrorist organizations, groups, and individuals. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other new working methods are increasingly being used in the work of intelligence services. The bearers of terrorist threats posed by terrorist perpetrators or malicious actors in modern circumstances use everything at their disposal, especially in the form of cyberterrorism. Likewise, the Russian full scale aggression on Ukraine on 2022 has employed the massive use of drones. An identical situation exists simultaneously in the Middle East, where state sponsors of terrorism, namely Iran, are also using drones on a massive scale, primarily through proxy networks in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen. Russia uses its proxies via Iran to the Houthis in Yemen to attack cargo ships and thereby terrorize international shipping traffic. It logically follows that terrorists will increasingly use drones of diverse types along with AI in the future to support their operations. Intelligence services must improve in all ways to promptly detect such threats. We can speak about the New Craft of Intelligence in modern circumstances, given that the entire data collection, processing, analysis, and prediction cycle depends on understanding and adapting intelligence services to these new challenges and sophisticated technologies.